Christian missions in the Telugu country - Uecf.net

THE DORNAKAL MISSION 205
members throughout the Mission now exceeds sixty Members,
thousand.
The Dornakal Mission was, as we have already Domakal
mentioned, started and worked entirely by Indian
Christians. The Indian Church has given more than
one proof that it wiU. take up the task of evangelising
India on its own account, apart from European direction,
of which this is one. The full title of the society
which carries on the Dornakal Mission is the Indian
Missionary Society of Tinnevelly. This society consists
of members of the Anglican Church in Tinnevelly who
have banded themselves together for this special
work. It originated in a meeting held at Palamcotta,
in the Tinnevelly district, in July 1903.
Before the end
of the year two offers of service had been received.
As the intention of the society was not merely to evan-
gelise those within its own borders, but to send its
preachers to what might properly be called a foreign
country, the first missionary, who represented a Tamil
branch of the Church, was sent in 1904 to a part
of the Telugu country six hundred miles away. The
spot selected was Dornakal, on the railway between
Bezwada and Hyderabad, in the Manukota Taluq
of the Hyderabad State. Before proceeding to his
station, the missionary had to spend a Uttle time at
the C.M.S. station of Khammamett, in order to
learn Telugu. By 1906 the staff had grown to three
missionaries and four local workers. In that year
the Bishop of Madras, who visited the place and
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